DAY named after D.I. Yavornytskyi to the 80th anniversary of the Dnipropetrovsk region presents the exhibition “Uniform of the USSR” (from the private collection of A. Skrypkin).
Today, Andrei Skrypkin’s collection includes about a hundred sets of Soviet uniforms from the 1940s to the 1980s, although it all started with a friend’s offer to take his old wax uniform.
All uniforms from Andriy Skrypkin’s collection are genuine, sewn many years ago. Each set is assembled from photographs and descriptions of those times — from uniforms and hats to awards and shoes. Today, this is not an easy task, since the demand for such things is small, and there are practically no offers. The pride of the collection will be presented at the exhibition – the uniform of a railwayman from 1963. This is the most expensive exhibit of the collection.
Looking for clothes in various places – from home storage to Internet forums and auctions. Sometimes, the names of the former owners of the form are known, but most often – these (such as “smuglyanka” or “Ivan Brovkin”) are generalized images.
In general, the exhibition will present more than 90 samples of military uniforms of various types of troops: infantry, artillery, cavalry, aviation, navy, military medicine, railway troops, even a military band; Soviet uniform: units of the traffic police, civil aviation, a student of a craft school. More than a third of the presented collection is the uniform of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. Among them are a rare 1941 cavalry uniform, a cadet uniform of the Suvorov military school (one of its first variants), a female military uniform. And epaulettes-buttonholes of the army of the USSR period and various departments are also presented.
